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Updated A tribunal in Leeds made the judgement after a four-day hearing in September. Carol Dewrow worked as a full-time trade union convenor, representing school cleaning and catering staff working for ISS UK Ltd in Wakefield. She had been seconded into that role after working in the kitchens herself at West End Academy in Pontefract and as a part-time cleaner at Oakfield Park School in Ackworth. A tribunal was told that after a series of disputes with management, Mrs Dewrow was put under "incredible pressure" to resign and return to her old post, which would effectively force her to take a...

A UNION activist victimised by a private outsourcing company working for Wakefield Council in West Yorkshire has won her claim of unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal. School kitchen manager Carol Dewrow was convener for public service union Unison at ISS UK, which provides school catering services for the council. The tribunal in Leeds heard how Ms Dewrow was involved in a national Unison campaign to recover wages which the union said ISS had unlawfully withheld from 45 school cooks in Wakefield, and how ISS tried to stop her carrying out trade union duties. Unison said that the ...